Web Chef Review: Ontario Savoy Cabbage at Harvest Barn Country Markets
Take a look at this beautiful specimen of Ontario Savoy Cabbage from Harvest Barn Country Markets. It is in perfect condition with nice, green, shiny leaves. It’s heavy, crispy, fresh and ready to use. There are no ugly outer leaves with holes in them that need to be discarded. so I can use every bit of this cabbage for my recipes. As usual, I am satisfied that whatever I cook with this cabbage from Harvest Barn Country Market,...
Web Chef Review: Organic Wheat Grass Living Greens by Sprouts for Life
This is what I say about Organic Wheat Grass Living Greens by Sprouts for Life. These beautiful greens are generally available in the produce section at your local supermarket or grocers. When purchased, this organic wheat grass comes in a sturdy, white pot filled with fine organic soil, contained in an open plastic bag that protects the grass. The sprouted wheat berries are on top, showing several days of growth, depending on how...
Web Chef Review: Harvest Barn Local Niagara Rhubarb
If you love this fruit, you’ll have to pick up some Harvest Barn Country Markets Local Niagara Rhubarb! Aside from the fact that we are able to get the freshest, tastiest rhubarb from our Niagara-on-the-Lake Harvest Barn Country Market, the rhubarb we got there was at its optimum point of ripeness. These bunches were perfect for cooking as in stewed rhubarb, rhubarb pie, rhubarb tarts, rhubarb fritters and we kind of enjoy it...
Web Chef Review: Harvest Barn Country Markets Ontario Kale
I picked up some fresh Harvest Barn Country Markets Ontario Kale this week for some great recipes. When I am looking for kale for a particular recipe, I look for the best, high quality, fresh Kale I can find, and I am always assured to find just that at my local Harvest Barn Country Market in Niagara on the Lake, where they provide their customers with as much produce as they can obtain within a 100 mile area. I am never disappointed...
How to Cook Purple Pole Beans + Video
Purple Pole Beans are some of the most beautiful beans I have ever seen, especially when you actually see them growing on the plant as I have when I harvested them from my Summer garden. Pretty & prolific! The plant is positively loaded with these tasty beans. They yield a great harvest and you can enjoy them all summer fresh from the garden. How to Cook Purple Pole Beans: When they are cooked, they turn green but they are fat,...
Web Chef Review: Drogheria Himalayan Pink Salt
I want to share with you my Mother’s current favorite salt – Drogheria Himalayan Pink Salt. The reason it’s her favorite? Well, because it’s pink of course! It has a beautiful light pink color to it with a peach undertone on a whole. Upon closer look, they range from light pink transparent chunks of salt through to some that are red in color because of iron oxide present. This salt came from the Himalayas in...
How to Bake Raisin Bran Muffins: National Raisin Bran Cereal Day
National Raisin Bran Cereal Day is November 15th, and this recipe for Raisin Bran Muffins is just marvelous. Aside from the nutrition facts about bran cereal, what could be better than combining bran with raisins. Bran cereal is chock full of fiber, complex carbohydrates, protein, minerals, phytochemicals & antioxidants, combined with super nutritious raisins. All grains are actually the fruits of grasses. Their structure is made...
Eating with Your Senses: Good Nutrition Month
November is Good Nutrition Month, and maintaining a healthy diet & lifestyle is essential to being in good health. We hear so much about nutrition and how important good nutrition is to the state of our health. We are organisms, which require large amounts of a variety of vitamins, minerals, fats, vegetables, fruits, grain, etc. to feed and maintain our bodies in a healthy condition. We eat to meet those needs, but also because we...
How to Cook Stewed Prunes
Stewed Prunes are an old, classic fruit stew, and most think it to be for “old people,” but the fact remains, it’s tasty! Yes, it’s a known fact that prunes, well, make you regular, if you catch my drift. However, they are chock full of vitamins, minerals & even protein. A healthy snack that’s ever-so-tasty made this way…stewed. How to Cook Stewed Prunes: We are quite fond of stewed prunes in...
How to Cook Asparagus in a Bamboo Steamer + Video
Cooking in bamboo steamers is not only a healthy way to cook, but it’s fast & easy too. From vegetables for side dishes, all the way to chicken & fish, and even surprises like steamed cupcakes… Steaming helps you save calories, as well as keeping the nutrients in the foods you steam, as they are not leaching vitamins & minerals out into boiling water, as when you boil vegetables. Then, you pour out the cooking...
Great Chickens Come From Springer Mountain Farms
Where the heck is Springer Mountain? Well, nestled into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Chattahoochee National Forest in Fannin County, northern Georgia, stands a chicken farm, full of pride, heritage, tradition & experience…Springer Mountain Farms. They are family owned, raising chickens for over 40 years, not to mention these third generation families contribute hundreds of years of wisdom to raising the finest chicken on the...
How to Use Apple Tea in Your Health & Beauty Regimen
Have you had your apple today? Keeps the doctor away, right? Certainly, we all know that this fruit is one jam-packed with healthy goodness. Also, it is one of the most widely consumed fruits in the world, as it grows well in many climates. From the celebrity to the average person, apples have been benefiting overall health & strengthening of the immune system, as well as for beauty & skin care alike, especially in Apple...
My New Favorite Cold Beverage: Alo Exposed Review
So, I’ve been trying to cut Red Bull out of my dietary repertoire, and have picked up a new cold beverage instead that I like. It’s an aloe drink called Alo Exposed. I believe this is the “original” flavor, and yes, it does have all those delicious and cool chunky pieces of aloe vera floating in it. Yummy & fun! You may think aloe vera is just for cuts & scrapes as a powerful healing agent, but...
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